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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12
Notice TO Erie Telephone Sub
scribers.

Orders are now coming i'll upon lis
so rapid y that we mus ask all new
subscribers to note the fact that il
is almost inposs bic tor us to fill
an order in less than three or
four days after it is received
as there is always somebody ahead.
We promise you to use every effort to
fill your orders as soou as pos
sible AL subscribers who have not
received our new directory will please
notify us aud they win be supplied
c. A, READ, Man ger.
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and vigilant, see there are honest
Judges" "thoroughly organize"
eight to win," and "do all you CAM
If this is not tho whisky sellers fight
II is their fight beyond controversy
but they will never permit argument
on the real question which has been
submitted il they can prevent it.
They don't intend the people Shall dis
cuss the crime, poverty, shame and
degradation which whisky entails on
Texas, but are using all their ingenuity
TO turn the discussion to possible
grapes and blackberries. The good
and evil of intoxicating liquors in
Texas is the question. Does any one
of their speakers argue that the liquor
traffic does Texas more good than
evil?
Before they enter on the argument,
better stop the fighting, killing, steal
ing, traceable to whisky, and empty
the prisons Of the / to every 800 OF
the population confined therein, and
blot out the report Of the UniIcd
States commissioner of education
where he says: "From so TO 80 per
cent. OF our criminals connect their
causes Of crime with intcmperance. "
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12
Order of Sale,

Padgit Bros. had writ Of attach
ment issued to Kaufman county few
days ago, against c. p. Sites, and this
morning the district court made ap-
plication for order of sale. The
judge granted the application upon
ten DAYS notice. The stock of Mr.
Sites invoices at $5,I6366. Pagir
Bro. claim is $3.50.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12
Fills a Long-Felt Want.

The great Napoleon at the summit Of
his greatness felt the necessity Of an
heir to succeed to his name and to carry
out his policy. The pure democracy Of
our parish at the zenith Of its strength
feels kindred longing for fit repre-
sentative to inculcate its doctrines and
perpetuate its principles. Hence we
have been born."-TerreboHne (La)
advocate.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12

THE HERALD is not disposed to
treat Recorder Brown unfairly. lie is
in responsible public position and
will be criticised and condemned by
this paper when he fails TO use his
authority for the welfare, peace and
order of this city. 1t is his duty to
do so, and the HERALD's duty to COM
mend him when he does-to condemn
him when he does not.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12
How Omaha Is Spreading.

Strnnger-I don't want such high priced
property. 1 would rather buy IN the suburbs,
where land is cheap.
Omaha Real Estate ASent--Well, have
some very fine suburban plots. Would you
like 10 see themi
"Very much We will have TO drive out,
supposer
ayes, we will take the train TO a little sta.
ton called Denver and drive out from there.
Omaha World.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12
The Dallas & Waco.

WAxAHAcmE. May 12.-There was
a meeting yesterday to raise the bal
ance necessary to secure the right OF
way for the Dallas x Waco Railroad,
Mr.. J. G. Gibson, chairman, stated
that the other towns along the pro-
posed route had complied with the de-
mands of the company and unless
Waxahachie did her part at once a
new line would certainly be surveyed,
giving this piece the go-by. Mayor
Du Bose reported $5575 on Tie sub
scrip:ion lists. Before the meeting
adjourned $500 was added TO this sum,
and enough more was subscribed to.
dav to make the total amount nearly
5000. The committee is still at work.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12
Prohibition Headquarters.

The County Executive Committee
have established Prohibition head
quarters in the Middleton building,
Elm street, first door to the right on
The second floor, where they will have
secretary and papers, circulars,
books, etc, at the disposal of the pro-
hibition workers.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12

Col. MILLS is certainly Inundated
if failures or mistakes can floor him
The ants have failed and refused TO
publish his great whisky effort Of his
life and the pros are using it as Il cap
ital campaign document. The ants
consider Roger too rapid. His self
esteem bump is the biggest thing on
him.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12
A slippery Business.

"There is always q great deal Of crooked
ness about these dime museums" said tho
chief Of police to the brand new mayor. an
what department usuallyr inquired the bran
new mayor. "More in the snake dens than
anywhere else, replied the chief, and shortly
after the house adjourned, ostensibly to as
certain whether the town really had gone
prohibition, but actually 10 ascertain that it
badn't-Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12
Tax Levy.

The county commissioners to-day
levied the tax for county purposes as
follows: AID yalorem, % cents; road
and bridge tax. Is cents, and sinking
fund 10 cents, a total of 80 cents on the
hundred dollars.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12
A Whole XoIley.

wigwug-That fellow with the long hairi
Oh, he's apoet.
Filtrip-His is a striking flgure-undoul..
edly a man fired by high ambitionsl
Wigwug-Ahl Well, live in his neigh
borhood, and l happen to know that he has
also been fired by his landlady.
Free Press
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12

No DEMOCRAT need hesitate now to
vote for prohibition, as the ants have
been forced by an intelligent public
sentiment to throw down the party
lash and fight the battle over mean
whisky.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12
Childish LIternlism.

Anxious Grandmamma lwatchful Of Wild
owed and coquettish daughter-in-lawD-JohR
ny, 60 down stairs, and IL Mr.. Brown is with
mamma tell her want 10 speak TO her
literal Rendition by Johnny-Mamma,
grandma says IL Mr.. Brown is here you're to
come right up stairs.--New Orleans Plea
yune
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12

WHEN a boom is merely specula-
tive and not substantial, it is apt TO
iniure the many and benefit n few
sharks. Dallas has made haste slow
", and her booms have usually been
reliable.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12
Love Triumnhanf.

Omaha Girl-Pa, MIR. DE Sweet has asked
me TO share his lot.
Omaha Pa-Where is it,
"within the two mile limit, fifty foot east
front"
~Bless you, my children. Omaha World.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12

THE Daily Advance comes now
from Waco and is highly appreciat-
ed exchange 1t is filed with sub
stantial things and plenty ofspice 1t
reflects great credit upon its publish
ers, editor and city. II is a daisy
daily.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12

WHEN a person persists in follow
inc the old-fashioned rule OF telling
the truth and doing right" great
many people of this age persist in
considering him fool.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12
Building Permits.

Il. G. Knight, one story frame 2Sx
SO, on Harwood street and Pacific
avenue, 5000.
f. G. Knight, one story frame, 2Sx3S
Howard street, near Pacific avenue,
5000.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12

The morning press declares that
counterfeit silver dollars are i'll circu'
lation in Dallas. They came doubt
less, from ST. Louis.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12

THE San Antonio Times, Waco Ex-
aminer aud other papers that sat
astride of the fence until that An
hcuser convention met here ars now
with the ants There is nothing like
q
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12

ALMOST every town in Texas is now
enjoying some kind of convention or
conclavc, but none of them are as blue
as our ants were.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12

AFTER the words L" for better or for
worse" it is now proposed TO insert
in tho marriage ceremony "tor long
or short haul"
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12

The Texarkana Times says 1t has
heard from that Dallas conventions
great orators, etc, anu is now torment
prohibition. Nothing like it.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12

TIE Mills-Gibbs team was Knocked
ont on the first round by the Clark
Cochran combination.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12

The wheat will be here in few
weeks and we shall all feel better.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12

The wavering members ofthe Texas
press are no longer leg-aside, but des-
troying the clover of the anti pasture
There is nothing like it.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12

RAINS have fallen out west and
pcopic out there are said to be happy
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12

Marriage licenses were issued to-day
as follows: f. Demblcr and. f. j.
Schroeder; NJ. G. Ferry and Mrs,
Marry J. Bass.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12

For advertising rates apply at the Office
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suffered ut the postoflice at Dallas as Second
Glass mail matter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-24

he is now or what has become Of him, but guess
he is comfortably located somewhere enjoying the fort
une he Inade in mining, which is all tho moro aston
ishing, as he never known In tho mining region
as anything moro than q day laborer"
"TalkIng about snow investments" said mining
expert who I'm the party did you ever hear OF the
man who ran q 200 foot tunnel Into snow bank y
MOI Well, this man was some kind OF an engineer,
and some Eastern people who had bought mine
maybe they st. L0ulsans-engaged him to run
o tunnel for them, and he did it-he ran 1t through
goo feet OF snow and got paid for 1t, ans when the
snow melted and the greenhorns went out to look
for their tunnel 1t had been dssipated by the sun
and was skirmishng down toward tho basin OF tho
Mississippi Valley by way Of the Arkansas River"
Then another story told about young man
who belonged TO an Illinois syndicate that purchased
mine in some part Of the mountains and came out TO
look Mt It, This two summers ago. somebody
helped him to locate the claim, and they found 1t
under mass of snow.
How can we get at nf' he asked
"You can't get at 1t till the snow melts," was the
answer.
And when will the meltr'
Don't know"
He waited all that summer and the snow still
there when he packed his grip and started back
for the Sucker State. The following summer he tried
It again. but the snow was there still. He has not
been around yet this summer. but he's expected II
this should meet hs before he starts he may save
himself long and mean Journey for the memory
of the oldest pioneers IL authority for the statement
that the same old snow has been covering the side
Of the mountain which his claim Is supposed TO
be located ever since Denver was settlement or
tho white man to these foothills In search Of
gold,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-24
MORSE THAN "SNAKRS.n

At Twenty slxthst. and Broadway, the lamp post
sign which marks the streets has met with acct
dent by which 1t has been turned upside down and
reversed, 50 that the Broadway allel with
Twenty sixth-st. and the Twenty -sxthst. sign Is
parallel with broadway. Delmonicos uptown place
Is the lower side OF this corner weil-drcssed
dude out OF there last night about midnight
with his elegant attire somewhat dlserranged and his
logs somewhat unsteady. Ho lookei at the cabman
who solicited his custom with vacant stare and
then staggered up Broadway until he reached tho
corner. Then his eye fell the lamp post sign. IL
was puzzle 10 him Tho longer ne looked at IL the
fascinated he became IN the endeavOr to unrayel
the puzzle. A TMEUSE reporter whs stood near by
could hear his Numbering uttcrances no debated
over II In this fashion shelp me gracious, am not
standing my head, but shop mo gracious, never
saw sign turned upside down before This Is worse
than snakes S'heIp me gracious II get home alive
I'll take the pledge to morrow"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-24
EXPERIENCES DRYING STREET CARS
SOME OF THx NOVELTIES OF THE FRONT PLAT

SOME OF THn NOVELTIES OF THE FRONT PLAT
FORM As TOLD BY A DRIVER.
TRIBUNE reporter, who stood on the front
platform OF n broadway car day or two, dropped
into conversation with the driver. He was an old
hand at tho rens who said he had been Driving for
seven years 81 came on the Broadway from
tho University Place line" he continued, Gas soon
as 1t was opened keep tho same team the year
round / do better work when know my
horses. I have not got my regular conductor on
with me to day or 7 could make better time. You
It makes mighty sight OF difference with the
driver when he knows tho conductors habits. My
old conductor and know each other. IL makes no
difference TO what conductor have. never look
back into the car J wait IL hear tho bell. Somc
drivers are continually looking back into the car as
II they were anxious for the conductor 10 start them
up at the crossings. That makes the conductor
nervous and mad, and he Is not IA likely to give
the driver fair show II tho driver Just lets him
alone and responds to the bell only.
at makes a mighty sight Of difference with a
fellow TO know his horses. BY always driving tho
samo team tho horses get so that they know what
you arc doing. Some cannot drive team on
the ROAD at all unless they have pole between
thom, and a pole Is awful nuisance In street-car
driving, especially In cases OF threatened accident
In the seven years that have been driving have
had many narrow escapes by being ablo to turn tho
horses quickly 10 one side or another You can't
do that with n pole / have never had anything
happen to beyond tho smashing OF window
That happened once in front Of tho Astor House
where truckman was backing out load The
worst trouble have Is with tho women who go
out into the middle Of tho street and dodge back
and forth. n they would stand stii we would know
Just what to DO with our car and our horses, but
they mako dash across tho street then jump back
and then dash forward, and then make another dash
back, that In the uncertainty Of what thoy are
going to do IT. Is wonder that we do not run over
q woman every day. The general average OF street
car drivers havo their wits much about them that
a person who happens TO get In fvnt OF car VIII
only stand sthi hoIc ~ not tho slightest danger OF
his being run Most OF the men In New YORK
have come TO understand this, and you rarrly hear
of an accident In which IL run over by street
car. How many people do we take up aud down
on the IouteI Well. that depends OH tho hour OF
our trip on this trip, which ! started at 10
oc,ock. will probably hayo eighty fairs going
down 20 tho Battery. Isitnr In the day coming up
We have as high rs 100, and from that on up TO
$50. of course, tho more passengers we tahe on
moro work 10 f. for the drivers"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-24
AN OFFENDED AUTHORS 4TONEMEET
Eroyn T.taDIs Ryr

Just before Mortimer COiiIHs's death, no happened
in way TO counter 10 tiI9 prejuIIcos
Il the most brilliant ana rugged Oh o. lettcls,
with whom he was personally acquainted las sa
brought upon his head-n The AtheneI m or Notes
ana QUERIES" l rhlnk-a voly Elya-hOoi of scaiDng
donunciltion from the OfcndoI oiympian Booro no
had time to answer, Mortimer Col ins was doaL
Thee years LATER wnen hts willow was In Trouble
at isewoITh and saw no oe her little maid reihsel
TO unlock tho gate 20 whtc hairol bury stranger
Standing outside, he shyy INJURED something
atout "a friend of Edmund Yates" This acted hhe
maggie many were the packets AMI letters the girl
had posted 10 that ai!iess, an' no was shown In.
Mrs. Mortimer collins, L thihkl" eyes" "Coi
bless you AXE this"
lie thrust roll OF bills into her hand. and was of
In his carriage AGAIN without another w0r, leaving
her 10 book blanhly after him t IL uo time
before she learndi that her visitor Charles
Rc.sie. aud that the timely kindness his atoGe
ment for his haste he kopt thu kindness up and olo
II the hr't literary LOarders who came to lighien
Frances Colinss burdens at her EaStboGrno house
was Charles Eea'e. IL was not long before his deaih
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-24
POOR DUNDEE.
From The Detrof, Free Press,

The Detroit free Press.
Sergeant vhas warrant oudt TO arrest me 2
softly inquired Carl Dunder. as ne tip-toed into the
Woo brdge Street Station House yesterday
"Not that know Of-Whyr replied Sergeant Benda..
"vhell two three days ago strange man comes in
Dunder vhas OF the Board OF Health und like look
In your cellar for dead rats und cholera Dot seems all
He vhas gone long time, md when he comes oop he
dot cellar vhas all right He vhas In York.
Chicago. Toledo und odder places, und he neafer see
soooh clean place"
some swindler. OF course"
'Vhe 1 IL der afternoons an0ider mans yhalks In on
me. vhas Carl Dunderi vhas All right Mr..
Dunder, yhas dot sewer In your cellar all right II he
taken TO der yard. Dot seems all right. und let
him go down. He yhas gone good while und when he
syacuse und Baltimore und he neaer see sooch sewer
"Me was another swindler"
'vhell. dis morning the third man comes In. Was
er Fire Commission MAYBE your cellar vSSs right
II you Was cut of by fire. und maybe she needs some
fire escapes Please hgas DOT candle e una snail see
he wipes of his shin init his elbow Dot put some Ideas
Milwaukee and St Paul und neafeI cellar liked
oop like mnc In Of fire he could slump out like
'What greenhorn you are!"
un yn ind &c got Gn
bottles Of my vino und sheal some moro. Dot vhas
game me. Sergeant"
.vheii made oop my mind dot der next Teller pays
for all He vhas sweet und SMILING Was Carl Dun
"Whatf'
''shust aboudt dot time slump for him und In two
minutes he vhas pulverized. make mop OF him. und
| smash two tables nit his heels He craws out doors
after % WHILE und when he vhas gone half an hour my
telephone rings Heli0l Was dis Carl Dunderi He
vhas Vhel Mt Dunder. you hat almost killed der
we sent read your gas meter und she Will cost you
fife hoonered dollar TO settle"
'Nol And you pounded the wrong manr
"vhell. how can helpful One day false express
man brings me sht9ne In a package, nn ,s collects
package uni after lick him hnd she vhas bundle
from der shtore One man comes III und collects money
70 build shurch. He vhas q shwndlcr, uni look
oudt gif der next man some awful kicks uni he
proofs dot he vhas preacher You II vhas all pe
CAUSE nopody vhas like himself two times serseantr
well" -
al yhas going home und 60 to bedt. vhas seek all
oafer II ten hoonered come to snwinde me 10 vhss
all right und doan word. II you ring oop my
eisphone tonight und vhas hanged by der neck dor
wood-she you can say dot died because OF soooh
Queer country
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-24
FUN WITH WESTERN MINES.
Denrer Letter 10 The 81 Louie GLOBE. Democrat.

tom Johns took the st. Louis and Boston folks In
Ia good STYLE and has made more money selling mines
which nobody has heard of than any
in Western history lie sold mine I'm st. Louis for
81 600 that paid ga 900 dividends In two years.
He paid the dividends himself, and when he got tired
of paying them he Just quit and b evo the owners
OF that mine have boon looking for Ii ever since.
don't suppose old Tom himself knew where 1t was
or cared either ~,
100000 out of syndicate at tho Hub that were tho
worst fooled lot Of money bags that ever struck Col
Orado. This syndicate or II nay DO only a dolega
ton of them, came West TO SEQ the mine for which
they had paid their money and Of which Tom gave
them account ten times more glowing than tho
Book of Revelations. When Tom got won that they
were en- route he was not worried In the least lie
hired big house up I'm the mountains just beyond
Georgetown, some kind OF hotel think IL was, and
no got servants and groceries and champagne, and
made all necessary arrangements to furnish first class
entertainment. He met them at Denver and escorted
them the rest Of tho way. Tho party tired and
they stood the entertaining for three four days
at the end Of that tino they wanted to their
up bit aud pointing to q Of stakes driven In the
snow, said
S1here she is, gentlemen. Right under them
stakes, which i had put there by surveyor Just
over my stakes In tho ground, Is your mine. You
can't IL because tho SHOWS on II, but when
the snow goes she'll be all hunky. and you can bet
it's o bonanza
"Thats all the Boston syndicate ever saw OF their
mine which was located ON Gothic Peak, I think.
Those stakes In tho snow cost them $500 600 on
Tom Johns was dandy for placing mines. st.
IOuisans Will reooilect him. and will Bost0nians
u they hear " sesd his name. don't know where
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-24

anything to do with an engine excepting one, and
that was not provided with governor, hence his mis-
understanding OF the question OF course he did not
pass the examination. An applicant for hospital
position was asked tho written question:
"What officer would you summon In case OF death
by accident or designp His written reply was
Jesus Christ" .
so well he is examined and his falling only dis
covered when his examination papers are handed IN:
S hare Marns nov U sna Mixed raonay
so anxious that thoo'ce kept open an hour later
than usual to accommodate him. on examination OF
his papers they wore found TO be the outcome of q
disordered bran and 1t was ascertained that no mao
been In an asylum. In an examination two years ago
of physicians holding diplomas for positions as san-
tary inspectors large percentage OF the applicants
nGs tae and was se its most
fccs upon the human subjectf ~ one applicant replied
own ignorance and It's effects upon the human body
may be greater or less according to the hck OF mo
applicant was smart enough to get the eligible list
TO tho question, Describe the effects of alcohol upon
III the subject takes enough OF II the effect Is Nkey
TO BIO a night In vhe station house" In an examina-
Was as asked What is the title Of tho legislative de-
partment OF tho cityT His written reply was g The
question, Through what means does the city obtain
its supply of water?" In this way Through Iron
ppes wgdse o inspector SsD wss asked ss
his reply was, "ChIcny from Florida" To the qnes-
ton, Where do we get our main supply OF pine,
apples T. the reply was, From the pine forests III
Michigan and Canada"
At the present time there sol names the
various eligible lists. OF this aggregate 2o4 are ON
the h e ics list or apb co. n.,,a, cors
AZ for inspectors of masonry, 90 for promotion as
police sergeants and 30 for promotion $ captains.
various places. There is special board consisting
81 Cbloi Epslreer Church. Mr. Loonii II tho Pubic
Works Department aud Mr.. Phillips TO examine ap-
piieants for places under the Aqueduct Commission,
and tho percentage Of those who Ia to pass is small
The average percentage OF those who fail to pass
aminations Is about 10 per cent with the exception